ALBANY — Dan McCoy says he doesn't plan on being county executive forever.

And now he's urging the county's charter review commission to make that the law.

Saying it is "time to embrace reform," McCoy is calling on the panel to seriously consider term limits on his own office. He also wants them to mull cutting the size of county's largest-in-the-state, 39-member legislature.

"Albany has long been beholden to political dynasties and was long defined by its political machine. Those days are behind us," McCoy, a first-term Democrat and former Albany County Democratic Committee chairman, said in a statement Monday. "Term limits are a sensible means of insuring that the county doesn't become stagnant or complacent as the world around it remains dynamic and ever-changing."

McCoy weighed in as the 11-member commission created last year by the legislature prepares to meet for the first time Wednesday to begin updating the document that defines the shape of county government and the distribution of power.

He stopped short, however, of offering a specific number of terms for the executive. His statement was silent on whether other countywide elected offices should be limited, too. It also did not say how many lawmakers would be enough to represent the county's 304,000 residents.

McCoy's predecessor and fellow Democrat, Michael Breslin, served 17 years before deciding not to seek re-election in 2011. The first man to hold the job, Democrat James J. Coyne, served four terms between 1976 and 1991. The last major revisions to the charter came under Coyne's Republican successor, Michael J. Hoblock, in 1993.

The commission was supposed to have completed its work by last month. But delays in some of the appointments forced lawmakers to extend the panel's deadline to July 1. Wednesday's meeting is expected to be organizational, including the selection of a chair. The panel includes several current and former state officials and lawyers.

McCoy will be forced to watch the process, which could have an impact on the authority of his executive branch of government, largely from the sidelines.

Prior to being elected county executive, McCoy spent 12 years on the legislature, including serving as its chairman. Though cutting the size of the body has been pitched by politicians on both sides of the political aisle, it has never gained traction. The legislature has an annual budget just shy of $3 million.

Commisso, a three-decade veteran of the legislature who sponsored the charter-review legislation, has repeatedly said he would not give the commission specific instructions and would declare nothing off-limits.

"I would think they would look at terms limits, to tell the truth," Commisso, of Albany, said Monday. "I wouldn't approach them to request of them to look at anything because my whole idea was let them do their work."

Any major changes recommended by the commission would have to be approved by lawmakers and voters.